Vidis joined Highstreet’s investment team in 2007. Highstreet Asset Management Inc. is an investment counsel firm founded in 1998 and based in London, Ontario.

As Vice President, Head of Trading, Vidis is responsible for overseeing Highstreet’s trading operations. Vidis is dedicated to ensuring Highstreet’s trading procedures contribute to the firm’s commitment of excellence in the investment process.

Vidis has significant experience in quantitative management, trading systems, direct access and algorithmic trading, managing trading costs, and programming. His knowledge is rooted in more than 26 years of applying quantitative techniques to the investment and trading processes, on both sides of the ‘Street’.

Vidis earned his Bachelor of Science degree from University of Toronto, where he specialized in math, physics, and computer science.

Paul C. Bourque is responsible for the regulation of Canada’s 200 investment dealers and their 25,000 registered employees. He began his career as a Crown Attorney and prosecuted complex commercial crime cases as well as appeals in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.

He held senior positions with the BCSC and the OSC before being appointed Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister of Justice for the province of Alberta.

He joined the IDA in June 2001. The Investment Dealers Association of Canada merged operations with Regulation Services Inc. on June 1, 2008, to become the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada.

He has written and lectured extensively on securities and criminal law and litigation.

Howard Atkinson has over 20 years of investment management industry experience, including positions with a national investment dealer and major mutual fund companies. Prior to joining BetaPro, Howard was responsible for business development of the Exchange Traded Products business at Barclays Global Investors Canada Limited. He is the immediate Past President of Toronto CFA Society board of directors and is a member of the S&P/TSX Canada Index Advisory Panel.

Mr. Atkinson is the author of "The New Investment Frontier III: A Guide to Exchange Traded Funds for Canadians," and "Les Fonds Négociés en Bourse: Un outil de placement novateur pour l'investisseur avisé".

Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is the author of the widely read investment book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The book has played an important role in encouraging the use of “index funds” by institutional and individual investors. The revised 9th edition of the book was published in 2007. His latest book From Wall Street to the Great Wall outlines investment strategies to exploit the growth of China.
Dr. Malkiel has long held professorships in economics at Princeton, where he was also chairman of the Economics Department. He was dean of the Yale School of Management and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies there from 1981.

He is a past appointee to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. In addition, Dr. Malkiel currently serves or has served on the boards several corporations including Prudential Financial and the Vanguard Group. He has also served on several investment management boards including the Investment Committee for the American Philosophical Association. He is a past president of the American Finance Association and is a member of the American Economic Association.

Dr. Malkiel is also the author or co-editor of several books including The Random Walk Guide to Investing: 10 Rules for Financial Success and Global Bargain Hunting: An Investor’s Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets, with J. P. Mei.

He holds a B.A. and MBA degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. degree from Princeton Universities and began his career in the investment banking department of Smith Barney & Co.

Tal Cohen is Chief Executive Officer of Chi-X Canada ATS Limited. A subsidiary of global securities firm Instinet, Chi-X Canada ATS Limited operates a high-performance, fully anonymous and low-cost continuous alternative trading system (ATS) for TSX-listed equities. In this role, Mr. Cohen has full operational and strategic responsibility for the platform.

Mr. Cohen has worked at Instinet since December 1999, holding a variety of positions including Head of Business Development/Strategy as well as several senior product management roles. Prior to joining Instinet, Mr. Cohen served as M&A Manager at American Express and before that Senior Business Advisor at Arthur Andersen.

Frank Loughlin is a senior vice president on the Americas equity desk at AllianceBernstein L.P. He has senior responsibility for the financial and retail sectors, swap trading and also oversees client facing activities related to equity trading. Mr. Loughlin joined the firm in 1990 as an associate in the US equity portfolio management group and moved to the trading desk in 1993. Since then he has held various senior roles on the US, international and global trading desks including co-head of Americas trading, head of US value trading and co-head of global value trading. He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Fordham University. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of both the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.

TriAct Canada Marketplace LP, an Alternative Trading System (ATS), launched MATCH Now on July 13th, 2007. As a new venue for Canadian dealers and their clients to trade Canadian listed equities, MATCH Now combines frequent call matches and continuous execution opportunities within a fully confidential “dark book” to offer better execution to institutional, proprietary and retail order flow. Orders can match passively or sweep through MATCH Now en route to any public marketplace, with automatic trade price improvement over the Canadian national best bid / offer.

Prior to TriAct Canada Marketplace, Ms. Rudd was Vice President, Business Development with ITG Canada Corp., where she managed the design, implementation and marketing of all trade execution products, including desktop applications, algorithmic servers and FIX connectivity. Ms. Rudd has also held senior positions at CIBC World Markets Inc. and the Toronto Stock Exchange. In over 15 years at the TSX, she led a variety of divisions covering customer relationship management, market data sales, product management, research and equity market development.

Ms. Rudd is a Member of the Board of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada Inc. She holds an MBA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Chris Sparrow joined Liquidnet Canada in March of 2008 and is primarily responsible for establishing the firm's quantitative trading desk in Canada and introducing Canadian versions of Liquidnet's algorithmic strategies. He is also responsible for bringing Liquidnet's cost and risk models to Canada with an emphasis on partnering with Members to help achieve best execution solutions to their trading process.

From August 2000 to March 2008, Chris ran the Research department of ITG Canada Corp. where he was responsible for the development and optimization of auto-trading strategies, and oversaw the adaptation and creation of pre and post-trade products for application to the Canadian market.

Prior to joining ITG Canada, Chris worked at TD Securities for three years where he traded OTC institutional equity options. Chris holds a Masters in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Western Ontario.

Michael J. Levas has been in the investment management business for over fifteen years and is the founder, chief investment officer and managing member of Olympian Capital Management LLC, and Olympian Partners, L.P. Prior to Olympian, he was a VP and Portfolio Manager in the Private Client Group at Lehman Brothers Inc. Prior to that, he was a VP with SG Cowen, UBS PaineWebber and Bear Stearns where he managed in excess of $250 million in both institutional and retail portfolios.

Mr. Levas is licensed Series 24 general securities principal, Series 7 general securities representative, and a Series 65, 66 investment adviser representative with FINRA. He is also the founder and principal of Olympian Futures LLC, an NFA registered introducing broker, and a licensed Series 3 associated person. Mr. Levas currently holds the CPM designation from the American Academy of Financial Management and is a candidate for the CFA level one, and has completed investment management studies at Harvard Business School. In addition, he is a current member of the CFA society of South Florida, Securities Traders Association of Florida, and serves on the 2008/2009 board of directors of The Hedge Fund Association.

Mr. Levas is a frequent conference speaker and commentator on the financial markets and asset management industry, and has been quoted in numerous publications, including Business Week, Smart Money, Hedge Fund Manager Week, Absolute Return, Euromoney, Securities Industry News, Advanced Trading and Alternative Investment Review.